Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae1de0862c4564e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:31:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: f860559dfe8893a5656d2c55c768b2a8 SHA-1: 001b5cc3afe5cab47e104c6fc849f97d48c9715d SHA-256: ae1de0862c4564e8f35bd54bf86cc0bdfb7a0ea350f44ff8d48e6d272345bc5f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d09fc381a70114b1682b27f33985e33/rinirebawawafilupelijakek.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d012d8d89---kujidorumofeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjs3bjgovicvgig2us038nhtag/14564381533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulgreeter.com/userData/board/file/25263219484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/vipudipeberajuxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/29772076450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/42858080349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/11227873709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjbtv0lrag5mh9oa34bei2u7dh/riwuzoziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6a3e58a45---22271343121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105260958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhvuongthuphap.com/upload/ck/files/24468425514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldplastsolution.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mudulovujozefibijokawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/72995562841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kimuvofoxizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a30f2aad0c1626f911de5b8ae238e902/silujova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edarky.net/data/file/82867966832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a05a4565469d5227b5e4847187363e0a/98270920349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7256586c0---72270452824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor79.com/clients/864886/File/kapaxezirikop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j8o08faq6kcf2ck18selvviqmr/80541683542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/temekabesinatalus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=expanding+and+combining+sentences+worksheetsPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f103.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF103 21180 bytes
SHA-256: 368c04713da3e5c630e97f75b164731954843626332fc6cbcf704808da858323
font_01_sfnt_off000127ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127AB 11316 bytes
SHA-256: 38ad6d6273f2e0cb87e5be5f18dcb5f3d7610f1ad1502c9533e244623a42833f
font_02_sfnt_off000141b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1